Hammer



May 21, 1929.

P). ANDERSEN HAMMER Filed March 9, 1927 t atented May 21, 1929.

PETER ANDERSEN, OF RACINE, WISCONSIN.

HAMMER.

Application filed March 9, 1927.

This invention relates to improvements in hammers and more particularly to a hammer adapted primarily for use by briclilayers, carpenters and like tradesmen. One object to provide a hammer that is of simple construction, cheap to manufacture and ei'licient in use.

l vith the -foregoing and other objects in View the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described, particularly pointed. cut in. the appended claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this application and in which lli g. 1 is an end View of the hammer.

Fig. 2 is a sectional View in side elevation.

Fig. 3 is a cross section taken on line of Fig. 1.

Like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The present invention provides a hammer having a head comprising a blade and heel and formed with a handle-receiving eye or perforation that is wider at one end than at the other to facilitate retention of the handle, the blade having a cutting edge disposed at right angles to the handle axis and formed with a marginal recess to permit the use of the tool as a nail puller.

The reference numeral 1 denotes the head formed with the neck 2, heel 8 and blade 4. The head and neck are formed with the eye or perforation 5 to receive the handle 6, said eye increasing slightly in its diameter as it recedes from the neck so that the handle may r be introduced therein and then by the introduction of the screws 7 to spread and wedge it at its end to etteetually prevent its w1thdrawal.

Serial No. 173,898.

The handle is disposed at right angles to the edge oil the blade and a notch or recess 8 cut in one edge of the head is disposed at right angles to the blade, the sides of the recess being straight and parallel. \Vith the hammer resting upon its head the recess 8 is caused to receive the body of an upstanding nail to be removed, as from a scaffold or the like, and the hammer oscillated upon its heel to extract the nail. The lateral edge or" the head wherein the recess 8 is formed is provided with the opposed short recesses 9, 10 that open into the recess 8 so that a nail or tack that does not extend above the material as great a distance as the length of the recess 8 may be extracted, the head of the nail or tack being received in the short recesses while the nail or tack body lies in the recess 8 and when the hammer moved to raise the blade, upon the heel as a pivot, the nail or tack is "sed out by its head.

lVhat is claimed is In a hammer, a head terminating at one end in a blade, said head being formed With a transverse recess along one of its lateral edges in a position at right angles to said blade, said recess extending a substantial distance inwardly r em said lateral edge and intersec ing the two broad faces of the head, the sides of said recess being parallel, said head being "formed further with opposed longitudinally extending recesses opening into said transverse recess at right angles thereto, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature.

PETER ANDE SEN. 

